Category: music
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Daylight and the Stand poem
My Daylight and the Stand poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Olympics Need an Aesthetic Branch — #OlympianAesthete
In preparation for our first two book readings for our Western Canonball book club here in Brooklyn (click here to unlock the whole booklist and join the book clumb), I came across an interesting passage in Hesiod’s WORKS AND DAYS where he gives a sort of meta reference to his THEOGONY, the first book in…
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The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading the poem The Lady of Shallot by Tennyson. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my…
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Cradle of Stone poem
My Cradle of Stone poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Stan Freberg Banana Boat (DAY-O)
Stan Freberg Banana Boat (DAY-O) is a parody of the original Banana Boat song. Thanks to Fred Heumann for the find.
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Billy the Kid
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading a short about Billy the Kid. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own…
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Koschei the Deathless
Today for Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales, we’re reading Koschei the Deathless. Myths, Legends, Folklore and Tall Tales is another one of my podcasts featuring bedtime story readings — in this case the myths, legends, folklore and tall tales of the world. Now and again, I read one of my own stories or even…
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Ash Wednesday poem
My Ash Wednesday poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Five-Pronged Eyes Poem
My Five-Pronged Eyes poem is from my poetry podcast. I’m reading first from my book Inconveniences, Rightly Considered — a collection of poems I wrote between 2005 and 2017. Featured Download: For a quick tutorial on how to write your own poetry, click here.
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Flying Tips and Future Planes
After selling both of our cars four years ago, Tara and I have flown a disproportionate amount compared to the rest of our lives since coming to New York — enough to offer some flying tips. I can say, for starters, don’t fly United or American and, frankly, John Oliver was right to say that…
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Social Media Break : Post Mortem on my Year Off Social Media
People have asked me how my yearlong social media break went. Great and terrible. It was terrible because I failed in my goal to write every one who signed up for handwritten letters. On the upside of that failure, I wrote dozens and dozens of folks. I think I’m up to fifty or something, so…
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Short Christmas Stories : I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster
If you’re looking for short Christmas Stories, check out I Gotta Idee by Elsie Singmaster in this episode of The Best Christmas Stories: Featured download: learn how to write your own Christmas Story based on thematic protagonism a la Dickens’ Christmas Carol.